Social Media Guidelines
Norfolk County welcomes posts on our social media pages. We ask that online commentary be respectful to all
Users, please note that staff reserves the right to remove any post and block users from its pages at any time, without notice.
This includes:
- Provides the personal information of other individuals.
- Promotes, perpetuates or fosters discrimination on the basis of race, creed, colour, age, religion, gender, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, nationality, physical or mental disability or sexual orientation.
- Is a personal attack on an individual or specific group.
- Is profane or abusive.
- Is sexually explicit or linked to content that is sexually explicit.
- Conducts or encourages illegal activity.
- Is commercial in nature and is attempting to advertise, promote or sell products or services of an individual or an individual business
- Is for the purposes of promoting a candidate for municipal, provincial or federal election.
- May tend to compromise the safety or security of the public or public systems.
- Violates a legal ownership interest of another party.
- Does not comply with municipal, provincial or federal legislation.
- Promotes an individual religion or religious service.
Norfolk County is not responsible for comments made on its social media applications.
Third-party social media sites are private businesses with their own terms of service and privacy policies. Norfolk County does not accept any responsibility for the operation of third-party social media sites and is unable to guarantee the privacy of individuals who access content provided to such sites by the County.
